There’s a lot on the net at the moment about work which has been ‘inspired’ by something else. It seems the Mad Men are mining popular culture rather than breaking out a new flip chart.

A while ago the Sony Bravia plasticine rabbits had everyone won over until it was pointed out that the whole thing looked rather similar to a Kozyndan art print:

Then we had the Sugar Puffs crimpin’ rip off from the Mighty Boosh…

…and only yesterday Ben Terrett noticed Lucozade’s new eerily familiar ad campaign:

Now today Creative Review has noticed that the Flight of the Conchords has been the latest victim of selling out to corporate advertising, but conveniently missing their pay cheque.

All this puts me in mind of the suspiciously familiar photoblog I found through my site stats, it even uses my own stylesheet:

I wonder if it will change now I’ve redesigned my website…

I’m pretty pleased this morning as I just found out I’m featured on the Johnson Banks Thought for the Week. Micheal Johnson posted recently about their open-ended Time project, where they invite viewer submissions. I thought they might be interested in my mobile phone photoblog as a visual record of time, so casually sent it in, not expecting to really hear anything back. Well, Michael replied to say thanks, and then this morning the photoblog was plastered all over their blog. Nice!

I’d better get on the phone to my web hosts and plead for some more bandwidth…

Oh, and talking of Time, the February issue of All The Rage featured a couple of my photos on the subject.